Bring those qualities to your talk and you may be amazed at what happens

Don’t dream of being a rockstar speaker. Dream of something much bigger than you are. Go and work on that dream as long as it takes to achieve something worthwhile. Then humbly come and share what you’ve learned

The Through Line: What’s your point?

Think of a talk as a journeythat the speaker and the audience take together with the speaker as the guide

But if you want the audience to come with you, you have to give them a hint of where you are goingand then be sure that each step of the journey helps get you there

The through line traces the paththat the journey takes

The first step is to identify where your audience is comingfrom knowledge wise or situationally so that you know where they are starting from

You have to take the time to do at least two things:

Show why it matters, such as the question you’re trying to answer or the problem to solve more experience to share

Flush out each pointyou make with a real examples and stories and facts

To provide an effective talk, you must slash back the range of topics you will cover to a single, connected thread

A through line that can be properly developed. You cover less, but the impact will be significantly greater

Less is more. The secret to a great talk is the deleted word

For it to be a great talk, you must take your ego out of itand let yourself be a delivery vehicle for the ideas themselves

Ken Robinson’s talk format:

A, introduction and getting settled on what will be covered

B, context. Why this issue matters

C, main concepts

D, practical implications

E, conclusion

There’s an old formula for writing essaysthat says a good essay answers three questions:

What?

So what?

Now what?

If you were talking about a heavy subject, it is OK to frame the talk in a way that will make your audience feel uncomfortable as long as they are prepared for it

However, you must be wary of compassion fatigue if they become emotionally exhausted from too many of these heavy topics

You can get around this by thinking of your talk as not about an issue, but about an idea

An issue-based talk leads with morality. An idea-based talk leads with curiosity

Imagine you met up with friends you went to schoolwith and are updating them with what you been up to

Losing an audience by going too fastis rarer than losing an audience by going too slow

For the most part, oration, which is a specific art-form, is not appropriate for public speaking

Have a powerful stancewhen standing still

If you want to move, then do so, but move intentionally.

Stopwhen you want to emphasize a point, and address your audience from a stance of quiet power

Learning to present your ideas liveto other humans will prove to be an absolutely essential skill in modern society and in the future

Knowledge vs. understanding. In many fields, knowledge is becoming more specialized. Understanding, however, moves in the opposite direction and requires pursuing the unification of knowledge

The key to understanding anything was to understand the contextin which it sat

TED reflected the reality that all knowledge is connected into a giant web

In the future, instead of needing specialized knowledge, which can be easily accessed and outsourced to robots an automated, we are going to need contextual knowledge, creative knowledge, and a deeper understanding of our own humanity

New ideasform when we spark off of each other and learn from each other

Now for the first time in history, it’s possible for anyone on the planet who has access to the internet to summon to their home the worlds greatest teachers and inspirers

YouTubeand the interconnectivity allowed for a global laboratory of dance innovation in the past decade. This had caused the art form to evolve at such high-speeds

He calls this phenomenon crowd accelerated innovation

Online video provided two things:

Visibilityof the best talent in the world

Massive incentive to improveon what was out there

Presentation literacy is going to be an important life skill for the years ahead

A speaker once said, “the secret of happinessis find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it“

What we share is far more profound and meaningful than how we differ

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